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Personal data breach claims for emotional distress in the Singapore Court of Appeal

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Cheong, Ben Chester  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1026-8292
Mohamed, Khairul Anwar 

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This note explores the treatment of personal data breaches, focusing on claims for emotional distress. When seeking compensation for emotional distress, there exists a tension in safeguarding against abuses of private information, on the one hand, and the reluctance of the judiciary to entertain claims related to non-material injuries, on the other hand: see Citron and Solove (2022) B.U.L. Rev. 793. Many instances of this problem stem from the interpretation of data protection statutes.

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The Law Quarterly Review

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0023-933X
0023-933X

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Sweet and Maxwell